Posts tagged as: Workflow Foundation

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Workflow Foundation TutorialToday will be a short post where we review the project structure of our sample project. WarpCoreTechnologies.Activities This is an “Activity Library” project used to hold our Workflows and custom activities. Having a shared activity library allows us to reuse these components inRead more

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Workflow Foundation TutorialI’ve found that the best way to learn a technology is to just go build something with it. Over the next several posts we are going to be building a complete order processing system using Workflow Foundation and since we need a fake clientRead more

When many people hear Microsoft and open source they may think that it’s a contradiction in terms but the new Microsoft has jumped into open source head first! And the best part is they aren’t doing like some companies do open source and simply make annual code dumps onto a public repo. They do open sourceRead more

In my last post I discussed unit testing code activities. Now that we’ve verified our custom activities behave the way we want we need to test the workflow as a whole to ensure they work together correctly. This is called integration testing. This is especially important for WF as much of the logic may beRead more

I just came across a new GitHub project, Orleans.Activities, which combines Workflow Foundation with the Microsoft Research project, Orleans (most notably used by the backing services of Halo). Orleans is based on the actor model and allows developers to build complex highly scalable applications very easily. Orleans.Activities seems like a natural fit for Orleans as the visual natureRead more